Valley Center, KS 67147 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Valley Center, KS?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 198 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Valley Center, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Valley Center before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Valley Center's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Valley Center compares
Valley Center's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,419 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 184 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Valley Center's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Valley Center can differ from the 67147 normal.